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...Challenge to House Master Hanson,” Sept. 23). Professor Dershowitz, however, has chosen an easier path, by embracing President Summers’ belief that signing the petition constitutes “an action which is anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.” Dershowitz, who has elsewhere made it clear that he believes the signing to be an act of anti-Semitism, may assert whatever he likes, but when he does so he cannot then demand, or expect, the attendance of those he so charges at the sort of Star Chamber he proposes. In that...
...best evidence of unlawfulness and intent of malice is the overbroad scope,” said Wendy J. Murphy, an attorney for SNAP and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School...
...even when those beliefs put him at the center of controversy. Such was the case last week when, speaking at the year’s first Morning Prayers at Memorial Church, Summers condemned anti-Israel activities that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” He was quickly and roundly chastised for stifling debate on Israel, allegedly the consequence of equating anti-Israel demonstrations and fundraising with anti-Semitism. The irony, of course, is that the critics who denounced Summers’ speech on these grounds only vindicated him and contradicted themselves...
...politicians and spies about how much secret data to release. It's true that the dossier contains no "killer fact" capable of converting doubters to the cause of imminent war. But that isn't Blair's purpose. He is trying to build a cumulative case that Saddam is both intent on acquiring more WMDs, and is therefore too dangerous to be left unchecked by the international community, given his long record of brutality towards his own people, aggression towards his neighbors and contempt for Security Council resolutions. Without any single killer fact, the sheer weight of evidence presented - in which...
...oppose Israeli policy or at those who oppose affirmative action, cast a dark shadow on public discourse. They threaten to mar the reputation of those they target and, as a result, can intimidate opponents into retreating from their views. Such accusations chill debate, in effect if not in intent...